Thursday, July 2, 2009

Rise of the Ubersexual Man!!!


I was getting late for one of my gals only outing, I put on a cute black tee on top of my cool blue denim jeans & was flimsily searching for my black stilettos when I heard “Why are you struggling just wear the red peep toes you have outside”; and it sure did look good and as I was strapping them it hit me that the advice came from my husband who was now gravely looking at the share market on CNBC & flipping channels to catch the cricket match as well, and I said to myself with a gratified grin “you got one Ubersexual man on your hands”!!

Gone are the days of the metro-sexual man who was self-obsessed & a way too self indulging giving way to the Ubersexual man, who is a manly man who displays all the good qualities associated with the gender without giving into the negative stereotypes such as chauvinism, emotional unavailability and a brain only filled with sports stats, beer and burgers. He has the traditional mannerisms a man should have; strength, honor & character while also possessing positive traits that are usually related to women such as compassion, communicativeness, co-operation and nurturance.

According to AskMen.com they give few differences between the metro-sexual man and the uber-cool Ubersexual man-

Passion
Ubersexuals are passionate about business, politics and global affairs.
Metrosexuals are passionate about themselves. Go ahead, just ask them!

The Sexes
Ubersexual respect and like women, but prefer the company of men.
Metrosexuals consider women to be among their best (and only) friends.


Source of inspiration
Ubersexuals follow their experience and reason.
Metrosexuals follow Carson Kressley.


Priorities
Ubersexuals are concerned with the world around them.
Metrosexuals are concerned with their calorie intake.


Emotional level
Ubersexuals are emotionally available.
Metrosexuals are emotionally vacant.


Money
Ubersexuals invest their money in sound business strategies.
Metrosexuals invest their money in exfoliant.


Grooming
Ubersexuals shave daily, if need be.
Metrosexuals can tell you the exact time of their next hair cut.


Obsessions
Ubersexuals are obsessed with quality and integrity.
Metrosexuals are obsessed with their butts.

It is important for men to change in their primal habits if they want to avoid being ostracized by women in this day and age. Women are much more in touch with their desires and expectations of their men not only in terms of basal needs but also how their man looks, speaks and interacts with her peer group.

I feel every woman must push herself to be healthy and groom themselves & also push their husbands or boyfriends to do so, which I can safely say would only improve their relationship. Few examples of our very own Ubersexual Bollywood men would be hotties Hrithik Roshan, Askhay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan & of course uber-hot John Abraham.

Well I can for certain say women aren’t quetching about this new revolution.

Nandini Aravind

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Discovery of the Writer!!


















Back in my school days I used to be an awkward kid when it came to English Language. I knew I was a good storyteller-my mum used to say the same when she caught me in one of my devious ways of getting more chocolate or ice-cream, but somehow the words never found that flow which was needed to be comprehended; especially when you’re a teenager. Mispronounced words & a mediocre vocabulary did bring me a lot of criticism & embarrassment within my social circle all adding to my dismay. Well somewhere down the line, apart from “puberty”, “identity crisis” and “growing-up pangs” things begun to change. I can’t really thank one person or thing for it….but I do remember vaguely reading secretly from my brother’s TOFEL books and also drowning myself into English TV serials & movies, (Oh ya!…the idiot box ain’t that idiotic my friend). No matter how I did it I got here today where I made one of the most improbable discoveries…. the “Writer” in me. Thanks to my dear friends in Femina who noticed this in me and gave me an opportunity that the 14year old back then would never ever have dreamt of.

Please do pick up the June 17th Femina issue to read my reviews & would love to know what you think of them.


Monday, June 8, 2009

Connecting the dots while Pondering over!!!!


At times us all; for no reason float away into the zone of yesteryear. "What if I hadn't done that or What if this hadn't happened” so on so forth. We put ourselves into this constant need to second guess one self. Well I am no good, lately I have been struck with the ever questioning bug from hell which wanted me to ponder over matters in my life, which I am” guilty" of doing. One day has I succumbed to its devious ways, I fell upon dots that ran all through my life and I became a kid who loved playing connecting the dots, only the thing different was, I was connecting the dots of my Life. In life there is no coincidence I feel; purely my opinion, we are where we were meant to be today. There is this overall force in the world call it what ever you wish to helps us achieve this. This may sound like a page out of "The Secret" but it’s just not that.

My biggest ever dotted line-

When I passed out of school, I like any other teen wanted to go to that college where all my other friends were going to, that was the priority for me nothing else mattered. But it was tough to convince my dad the same and with all the conniptions that I had learnt has a 16 year old didn’t help either, I was tossed into the college deemed fit to him. But if that hadn't happened I would have most likely not met my best friend ever till date; whom later became my husband and here I am living each moment of it with him.

Steve jobs once mentioned in one of his inspiring speeches "you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards"!!

I feel what he meant is if you don’t know where you have been and how you got here you will never know where you really want to go…..so start connecting those dots who knows what you may find.